Today I see the new SL Community Site is up. Not working, but there is a new landing page.
No posts are showing. I can’t post anything. But, there is progress… I think…
Second Life
Things about SL
Second Life Bits 2017 w09
Forum
There is an update on the new forum roll out. See: UPDATE: New Community Platform Timeline.
Seems the data transfer is taking longer than expected. So, the forum remains locked today, no posting. The forum should open 2/28… some time today… well may be…
Mesh Addicts
Mesh Body Addicts has a new Weekly Fitmesh Finds are here! I’m not sure how much their finds affect traffic to the regions listed. My empirical experience is: it may take days for me to get into some of the regions listed. Uber seems unusually busy.
Internet Outage
The outage is large enough to be making national news. Amazon cloud servers went down. That affects many web sites and services like Second Life. The SL asset services depend on Amazon’s cloud, the S3 services – AFAIK.
SL login is supposedly not affected. The login servers are in one of the Lab’s locations or on co-location hosts other than Amazon. But, once logged in you may not rez, the region may not rez completely, and your inventory may not populate.
Do NOT try to change or fix your appearance. You will likely confuse your viewer and make things worse. Do as little inventory-asset related tasks as possible.
Second Life Current Problem
Currently, Tuesday 2/28 at 10:15 AM SLT, There are grid problems and login problems. Lindens are investigating.
We are on ‘do not rez no-copy items’ status. You may have problems rezing anything.
It seems a service provider to Linden Lab is having problems.
Identified – We have identified the issue as a problem with one of our service providers. They are actively working to correct the problems.
Logins should not be impacted, however the asset system continues to be problematic. Additionally, other services including search.secondlife.com, my.secondlife.com, and more have been impacted as well, and will remain so until the issues have been resolved.
We will update this blog with additional information when we have it.
Feb 28, 10:32 PST
Second Life News 2017 w09
Servers
This week (Tuesday) the main channel is not being updated or restarted. The RC channels are getting an update and that requires a restart.
![[Pose with me] Virile](https://i0.wp.com/farm4.staticflickr.com/3852/32326899204_eb6d03ff95.jpg?resize=500%2C278&ssl=1)
The Release Notes list some improvements and a known bug.
Second Life: What Viewer Statistics?
If you have ever pressed Ctrl-Shift-1 to reveal the Viewer Statistics panel and wondered what all the stuff means, there is a good explanation of the items in the panel over at the Firestorm Viewer Wiki. See: Firestorm Viewer Statistics. Almost the same information is available in the SL Wiki: Viewer help: Statistics.
I think on both sites they have simplified the text for the less techy users. I think that is a bad idea, as the people looking for explanations of how the items in the panel work are likely tech savvy.
The first four items listed on the pages are the source of a lot of confusion; FPS, Bandwidth, Lost Packets, and Ping. So, I’ll provide a bit more information.